At 01:30 PM 5/9/2009, you wrote: >This time I'm taking advantage of the considerable oddity of >poetryetc, not to speak of the surprising erudition of its members.. > >It's Spring, so naturally my thoughts turn to saliva. In my mind's >eye I conjured a drooling chicken. Hence the question: do birds >drool? do they even salivate? What about reptiles? No jokes about >rabies, please--I've already run through them. > >My mind is like a stone >skipping on water, which one day >will sink, tee hee. > >Mark I realized after I wrote the above that of course birds salivate--I've happily slurped their saliva in the form of birdsnest soup. The question remains--do they drool? Must be a bird voyeur out there. Mark